Species Exoneurella lawsoni (Rayment, 1946)
- Exoneura lawsoni Rayment, T. 1946. New bees and wasps—Part II. Describing two black species of Exoneura. Victorian Naturalist 62: 230-236 [Date published 31/12/1946] [230].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂, Canberra, ACT.
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Nest in dead, dry pithy stems (Hydrangea L. [Hydrangeaceae], Verbena L. [Verbenaceae]), basically subsocial, each female founding and maintaining her own nest, all immature stages found in the communal chamber, larvae fed progressively, flower visiting record: Wahlenbergia Roth [Campanulaceae].
General References
Houston, T.F. 1976. New Australian allodapine bees (subgenus Exoneurella Michener) and their immatures (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 100: 15-28 [Date published 31/12/1976] (taxonomy)
Houston, T.F. 1977. Nesting biology of three allodapine bees in the subgenus Exoneurella Michener (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 101: 99-113 [Date published 31/12/1977] (biology)
Michener, C.D. 1963. New Ceratinini from Australia (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 44: 257-261 [Date published 31/12/1963] (redescription, generic placement)
Michener, C.D. 1964. The bionomics of Exoneurella, a solitary relative of Exoneura (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Ceratinini). Pacific Insects 6: 411-426 [Date published 31/12/1964] (biology)
Michener, C.D. 1965. A classification of the bees of the Australian and South Pacific regions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 130: 1-362 [Date published 31/12/1965] [225] (illustration)
Michener, C.D. 1973. Size and form of eggs of allodapine bees. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 36: 281-285 [Date published 31/12/1973] (egg)
Michener, C.D. 1977. Discordant evolution and the classification of allodapine bees. Systematic Zoology 26: 32-56 [Date published 31/12/1977] (larva)
Michener, C.D. & Brooks, R.W. 1984. A comparative study of the glossae of bees (Apoidea). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 22: 1-73 [Date published 31/12/1984] (glossa)
Michener, C.D. & Scheiring, J.F. 1976. Pupae of allodapine bees (Hymenoptera: Xylocopinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 15: 63-70 [Date published 31/12/1976] (pupa)
Neville, T., Schwarz, M.P. & Tierney, S.M. 1998. Biology of a weakly social bee, Exoneura (Exoneurella) setosa (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and implications for social evolution in Australian allodapine bees. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 221-234 [230] (biology compared)
Reyes, S.G. 1998. A cladistic analysis of the bee tribe Allodapini (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae). Philippine Entomologist 12(1): 55-84 [73]
Reyes, S.G., Cooper, S.J.B. & Schwarz, M.P. 1999. Species phylogeny of the bee genus Exoneurella Michener (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Allodapini): evidence from molecular and morphological data sets. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 92(1): 20-29 [20]
Schwarz, M.P., Bull, N.J. & Hogendoorn, K. 1998. Evolution of sociality in the allodapine bees: a review of sex allocation, ecology and evolution. Insectes Sociaux 45: 349-368 [353] (biology)
Syed, I.H. 1963. Comparative studies of larvae of Australian ceratinine bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 64: 263-280 [Date published 31/12/1963] (larva)
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